Obama Scandals

Amnesty Granted To Child Molesting Camp Counselor Known As “Papa Bear”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) knew last year that an illegal alien California camp counselor known as “Papa Bear” was being investigated on child molestation and child pornography charges but did nothing about it, Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley claims in a letter sent to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson on Wednesday.

Hide the Decline

Environment &
“Green Energy”

At the mercy of the climate jihadists
Years ago, I heard the Jewish comedian Jackie Mason performing in Beverly Hills, riffing on the primary motivation of wealthy liberals. They do things, he suggested, not because they actually accomplished anything, but because “I have to look at myself in the mirror.”

More Countries Caught Manipulating Their Climate Data
Weather agencies in Australia, Paraguay and Switzerland may be manipulating temperature data to create a sharper warming trend than is present in the raw data — a practice that has come under scrutiny in recent months.

15 Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea
Inequality in Baltimore has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, with riots and civil unrest in that city following the funeral of Freddie Gray. This inequality has roots that stretch deep into the past. It’s been exasperated by bad policy decisions in the present-day. And it makes itself felt in every aspect of life in the city, from the racial composition of neighborhoods to the number of empty houses standing in them.

Revealed: Ferguson Protests Were BOUGHT and PAID For By ACORN Successor
This is simply amazing. We kind of suspected that there was something else going on behind the Ferguson protests, but only now do we have absolute evidence that there were shady organizations PAYING for protesters to show up. How do we know? Because those same protesters are angry that they were promised money and it hasn’t been paid yet!

American Indians Mad at Both Harris and Sanchez
Rival U.S. Senate candidates Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)17% and California Attorney General Kamala Harris have drawn the ire of the California Democratic Party’s Native American Caucus. Sanchez offended members with a “war whoop” during a speech Saturday at the California Democrats Convention, and Harris is in trouble over her stance on tribal lands.

Lesbian Couple Demanded A Refund From The Jeweler Who Made Rings For Them AFTER They Found Out He’s Christian
According to this, Nicole White and Pam Renouf are a lesbian couple from Canada who went to a jewelry store to have a pair of custom engagement rings made. They were satisfied with the prices and the store’s service and they even recommended the business to several of their friends. But one of those friends came back to them after going there and finding the business had a sign posted in the window that says “The Sanctity of Marriage is Under Attack. Let’s Keep Marriage Between a Man and a Woman.” And when Nicole and Pam found out about the sign, they rushed back to the store and demanded their money back. Even though they previously were happy with the business and the only thing that changed is that they found out the business owners supported traditional marriage.

Update on Kentucky-GOV GOP Primary: James Comer takes the high road.
Good for James Comer: “As you know, I have asked for a recanvass of all 120 counties to make sure that the totals are correct among the 220,000 Republican votes cast. If the results are accurate, I will congratulate and gladly endorse Matt Bevin.” As I noted yesterday, there’s a difference between a recanvass and a full recount; and it’s perfectly reasonable for anybody behind by only 83 votes to ask to make sure that the sums all add up. So what James Comer is doing here is to let people know that he is not planning to ride a dispute over the Kentucky Republican gubernatorial primary results all the way to the bitter end: instead, if the recanvass doesn’t show him ahead after all then Comer will be bowing out, gracefully.

Obama wins trade victory in the Senate
President Obama won a big victory for his trade agenda Friday with the Senate’s approval of fast-track legislation that could make it easier for him to complete a wide-ranging trade deal that would include 11 Pacific Rim nations.

International

Sweden used as warning example by Norway police
As a current resident of Sweden, I sometimes find myself questioning my own sanity. All these problems I blog about are right there in the open for anyone to see and getting worse by the year, yet media and politicians act as if everything is hunky-dory.

Heads LGBTs Win, Tails Christians Lose
So, a Canadian Christian jeweler custom-made a pair of engagement rings for a lesbian couple, Nicole White and Pam Renouf, at their request. Later, when they found out that the jeweler personally opposes same-sex marriage, they went to pieces and demanded their money back. From the CBC’s report

Jeweller says he has been bullied, threatened
The co-owner of Today’s Jewellers, under fire for displaying posters in the store opposing same-sex marriage, says he has received hundreds of hate messages, including some threats.

Can David Cameron Recover the U.K.’s National Sovereignty?
Things don’t turn out the way they are supposed to, do they? The international structures put in place after World War II offer unhappy evidence. The United Nations, for instance, originally utopian in inspiration, on balance does more harm than good. Signed in 1950, the European Convention on Human Rights arose from a similar generous impulse to hold at bay the tyranny that Communism then appeared to be spreading across the continent. Implementing the Convention and its huge range of human rights, the so-called European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg has evolved into a supreme judicial body for members of the European Union. In 2000, Tony Blair, then prime minister, passed the Human Rights Act, bringing into British law all the protections specified in the European Convention. Put truthfully, he was sacrificing national sovereignty. British history rests on the fact that the law has always been in the hands of Parliament. That was over and done with. European judges could now dictate to Parliament.

Ireland legalizes Gay Marriage
Irish voters backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum marking a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Catholic country, government ministers and opponents of the bill said on Saturday.

The Crisis of the Administrative State, Part 5: Government as Faction
The whole point of a limited government republic with the separation of powers and other constitutional safeguards is to keep government as a neutral force between factions and interests. (See: Madison, Federalist #10. Rinse and repeat.) But today’s administrative state—the increasingly independent fourth branch of government—has transformed government into its own special interest faction, lobbying itself on behalf of itself—increasingly in partisan ways.

Thomas Sowell : “Just Asking”
In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric — and disregard of reality.

Matt Bevin vs. James Comer: Kentucky-GOV GOP primary race still up in the air.
This is a little bit of a sticky wicket: “Matt Bevin may have won Kentucky’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday night. Out of more than 214,000 votes cast, the Tea Party conservative was leading James Comer by 83 votes. Yet with a margin that thin, there might be no way to know with any certainty just who GOP voters in the Bluegrass State actually nominated to lead them for the next four years.”

The Emma Sulkowicz Generation
Columbia University recently held its commencement ceremonies, which gives us all another reason to talk about one of the worst people in America, Emma Sulkowicz. For those who are unfamiliar with this particular sordid tale, Emma Sulkowicz was a Columbia university student who claimed that she was brutally raped by a friend named Paul Nungesser. There was only one one problem with Sulkowicz’s tale – it was manifest and absolute bulls***, as detailed by a lengthy and thorough Daily Beast article which pointed out the numerous inconsistencies and implausibilities in Sulkowicz’s tale, along with Sulkowicz’ reticence to be forthcoming in response to Nungesser’s offers of proof that the rape never occurred.

One Group That Definitely Doesn’t Benefit from White Privilege: Biker Gangs
One can always count on Charles Blow to distill a handful of hitherto inchoate silliness into column form, and this morning he did not disappoint. Picking up each and every one of the witless tropes that have been circulating since the travesty at Waco, Blow set about to establish that a grave linguistic injustice had been done to America’s rioters.

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It
Emma Sulkowicz lies about rape and Hillary Clinton lies about everything, but feminists insist that no woman ever lies about anything. Feminism is an ideology based on the belief that women have a monopoly on virtue. All women are intelligent, kind and honest, according to feminist theory, and all men are stupid, selfish and untrustworthy. Therefore, women have a right to everything, and men have no rights at all — except, perhaps, the right to remain silent. Because SHUT UP!

Behind Science Fraud
We reported here the other day about the latest fraudulent article in Science magazine, but don’t miss the op-ed about the broader problem of science fraud in today’s New York Times by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (who is one of the founders of RetractionWatch).

85 Years Ago, Chesterton nailed the Boomers
“A generation is now growing old, which never had anything to say for itself except that it was young. It was the first progressive generation – the first generation that believed in progress and nothing else…. [They believed] simply that the new thing is always better than the old thing; that the young man is always right and the old wrong.”

Fundamental Concepts – Born on Third Base
In 1988 a Texas Politician, Jim Hightower, addressed the Democratic National Convention at Atlanta, Georgia, on July 19. In his speech, he famously said that the Republican nominee for President, George H.W. Bush, “Was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple”. It’s a pithy turn of phrase, and today a lot of people credit Hightower with coining it.